Please send this book to my mother

Ariella Yedgar (Ed.)

London-based artist-architect Sarah Entwistle’s artist’s book, Please send …
reconfigures the traditional architectural monograph and artist biography to create
an ambiguous portrait of her grandfather, architect Clive Entwistle (1916–1976).
The result is a fascinating narrative welding fragments of extremely personal reflections
and extensive visual material. Clive Entwistle was an autodidact who described
his cardinal points as: Philosophy, Architecture, Intellect, and Sex. He tackled utopian
city plans, product design, structural engineering, formal experimentation and
architectural critique and his proposal for the Crystal Palace (1946) was described
by LeCorbusier as “one of the great projects of our time.” However, none of his
ambitious proposals was realized, his presence erased from the landscape of modernism.
Sarah Entwistle’s evocative rendition of his life in this beautifully designed and
extensively illustrated hardcover book provokes questions on the authority of the
biographer and reaches beyond genres into the realm of poetry and prose fiction.
Published to accompany Entwistle’s exhibition of new sculptural works, He was my father
and I an atom destined to grow into him, at the Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, 2015.

Nelson Mota & Ricardo Agarez (Eds.)

The focus on star architects in contemporary Western architecture has marginalized the role of everyday practitioners and others who play vital roles in the field of architecture today. Footprint 17 addresses the architectural production of those in inconspicuous offices and unexciting departments who contribute their insights and experience to the making of architecture, the formulation of architectural history, and the politics of architectural design and theory. Footprint 17 explores the intellectual frameworks, didactic practices, research methods and analytical instruments that develop the disciplinary focus beyond the work of the “prime mover,” and the relevance of salaried architects and institutional agencies in shaping the spatial and social practices of the everyday. Essays by Ricardo Agarez, Nelson Mota (editors), Nick Beech, Amir Djalali, Andri Gerber, Ellen Rowley, Tim Gough, Elizabeth Keslacy; visual essay by João Paulo Martins, Sofia Diniz and reviews by Karen Lisa Burns, Justine Clark, Jullie Willis, Tahl Kaminer and Javier Arpa.

Constellation of Awakening:
Benjamin and Architecture

Patrick Healy & Andrej Radman (Eds.)

Focusing on German cultural and architectural theorist Walter Benjamin’s “constellation of awakening,” TU Delft’s Footprint 18 investigates Benjamin’s conceptualization of “dialectical images,” his use of montage, his refusal of notions of both progress and decline, and his effort to demonstrate how images belong not only to a particular time but attain legibility only at a particular time. Famously, according to Benjamin, image is what comes together in a flash to form a new “constellation.” In his Arcades Project, he engaged architecture directly, especially the work of Bötticher, positing an architectural unconscious and the role of the optical as crucial for understanding commodification. Contributions by theorists Patrick Healy, Andrej Radman, Stefan Koller, Lutz Robbers, and Frances Hsu, architects Jolien Paeleman and Rodrigo Rieiro Díaz, and Stephen Michael Witherford Fulbright Research Fellow Ross Lipton, writer and media consultant Sarah K. Stanley and cultural theorist Stéphane Symons.

The Architecture of Public Truth

Forensis (Latin for “pertaining to the forum”) engages the testimony of material objects—such as bones, ruins,
toxic substances—as a method of central importance in interpreting how subjects are policed and governed
by their states. Developed through the Forensic Architecture Project by theorist Eyal Weizman at Goldsmiths
College, University of London, Forensis seeks to expand the scope of contemporary forensics to include a
broader historical, theoretical, political and aesthetic context.
At the heart of the book is a methodological experiment in which participating architects, artists, filmmakers,
lawyers, and theorists employed new technologies and spatial research methods to investigate contemporary
issues such as border regimes, urban warfare, and climate change. Investigations were undertaken in Pakistan,
Palestine, the Amazon basin, Guatemala, Chile, Bangladesh, Yemen, the United States and the former Yugoslavia
among others places. Evidence of state or corporate violence was unearthed for use by prosecution teams,
civil society organizations, activist networks, human rights groups, and the United Nations.
Innovative investigations aimed at producing new kinds of evidence in this rich collection of essays and research
reports suggest many new ways that international prosecutorial teams, political organizations, the UN, and
NGOs can engage the material world to open up forums for civic dispute and articulate new claims for justice.
Contributors include Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Nabil Ahmed, Maayan Amir, Hisham Ashkar & Emily Dische-
Becker, Ryan Bishop, Jacob Burns, Howard Caygill, Gabriel Cuéllar, Eitan Diamond, DAAR (Decolonizing
Architecture Art Residency), Anselm Franke, Grupa Spomenik, Ayesha Hameed, Charles Heller, Helene Kazan,
Thomas Keenan, Working Group Four Faces of Omarska, Alessandro Petti, Lorenzo Pezzani, SITU Research,
Caroline Sturdy Colls and Eyal Weizman.

Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal

Paris-based architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal believe in the
luxury of simplicity. Known for their delicate interventions, they opened their
2015 lecture at Harvard University with a manifesto: Never demolish! Instead, they
study and inventory the situation and densify without compressing individual space,
promoting access and choice in their generous, open designs. In Freedom of Use,
the second title in Harvard GSD’s compelling new Incidents series exploring
underlying themes in makers’ process, the architects present a fluid narrative
of their built and unbuilt work including a house in Niger made of branches,
the expansive Nantes School of Architecture, and a public square in Bordeaux
where, after months of study, they came to their design solution: do nothing.
The book’s modest photography echoes their philosophy: small black-and-white
exterior shots running alongside the text form a dialogue with the color interior
photographs gathered at the end of the book.

The 5th International Alvar Aalto Symposium

Maija Kärkkäinen

Kas Oosterhuis and Lukas Feireiss

With the new technical possibilities of worldwide electronic networking and the ubiquity of new media and digital technology in many fields, conventional disciplines gradually dissolve as new “transdisciplines” arise. In contemporary architecture, too, changes give rise to new ideas that come from a multitude of influences. This book brings together the results of the international and interdisciplinary Game Set and Match II Conference - The Architecture Co-Laboratory, directed by Kas Oosterhuis, professor of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Looking at contemporaneous and potential future changes in digitally driven architectural and design practices, it accentuates the move toward experimentation and collaboration, offering a kaleidoscopic view of current developments in the digital design domain. Including contributions from Robert Aish, Raoul Bunschoten, Bernard Cache, Jan Edler and Tim Edler, Georg Flachbart, John Frazer, Mark Goulthorpe, Branko Kolarevic, Anne Nigten, Marcos Novak, Kas Oosterhuis, Katie Salen, Tom Verebes, Peter Weibel and many more.

The Construction of Dreams

Jan Molema

Trix & Robert Haussmann, Gabrielle Schaad & Ben Weinberg

Equal parts fashion, design and architecture, the collaboration between family-run
specialty fashion store Weinberg and the noted modernist Swiss architect/
design team Trix + Robert Haussmann began in the 1980s. Over 25 years together
they captured the zeitgeist of the times. The plans, drawings and architectural
photographs featured in Haussmann für Weinberg shed light on six projects in
which Trix + Haussmann shaped the stores as well as developed atmospheric
and innovative concepts for fashion brands such as Lanvin and Courrèges. Richly
illustrated with historical news clippings and company brochures, the publication
includes a conversation between art historian Gabriel Schaad, Trix + Robert
Haussmann, and the architect duo Isa Stürm and Urs Wolf, who renovated the
Weinberg women’s boutique in late 2014 as the book went to press.